Word: renowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prahl, a converted attack man from Andover, has looked good in practice, but has no college experience. Watts, Bohn, and Woody Spruance will start at attack with Dave Grannis, Henry Field, and Arnle Margoluis at defense. Gil Leaf, last year's talented freshman goalie, and Bob Bland of hockey renown will share goal-tending duties. The second midfield will include Gil Bamford, Pete Seiglaff, and Tyler; the third, Reese, Nyhan, and Ullman...
Hans Hofmann is 80, and his claim to a place in the top ranks of American painters is secure. Yet Hofmann's renown is not grounded in a lonely, inarticulate struggle of artist and canvas. He, more than anyone else, has managed to combine the roles of teacher, example and influence in leading U.S. art to its flowering of abstract expressionism in the past 15 years. This long effort has scarcely seemed to age Painter Hofmann. He looks like a jolly burgomaster who has just turned 50, and as his latest show in Manhattan's Kootz Gallery proves...
...ability for the salary it paid him ($23,500). Kansas-born, Roman Catholic Jim Redmond has been a rising light in U.S. public education since 1940, when he became assistant to Kansas City Superintendent Herold Hunt, who later moved to Chicago, taking Redmond with him. Both men won renown for cleaning up Chicago's graft-ridden public schools. When Hunt became an education professor at Harvard in 1953, Redmond went to New Orleans...
...Snow's renown did not come from his novels originally, but through science and government, the subject of his Godkin Lectures. He was born in 1905 in Leicester, a provincial city in England. His family was not well off, and Snow made his way by his brains. He studied at University College in Leicester, working in chemistry and graduating with First Class Honors. His work was brilliant and soon took him on to Cambridge where he continued his research in infra-red spectroscopy and was elected in 1930 a Fellow of Christ's College. At this time, while publishing scientific...
...discover in their own heritage. The 125 canvases, roughly half the collection of Detroit Businessman Larry Fleischman, reflect a warmly romantic taste, and uncompromising standards too. Among them: The Uncanny Badger is a strange picture by John La Farge, a mural painter and stained-glass designer of renown who worked mostly in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. It was inspired by a trip to Japan with his famed friend, Historian-Biographer Henry Adams. In a note scribbled on the picture's back La Farge wrote: "With the Japanese, the badger is uncanny...